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Top Minn. election official says system is sound

Minnesota's top election official says
there's no widespread voter fraud occurring in the state.

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says Minnesota's election system
is the best in the nation.

Ritchie was responding to a group alleging widespread problems
with Minnesota's voter registration records.

He says the system is designed to catch ineligible voters by
crosschecking voter registrations with driver's license records,
sending postcards that can't be forwarded to verify voters'
addresses and flagging voters who must prove their eligibility to
vote at the polls.

Starting next week, Ritchie says his office will check the voter
rolls using driver's license records for immigrants on time-limited
visas to find ineligible non-citizens who are registered to vote.

Minnesota law makes it a felony for an ineligible person to vote
intentionally.